Interstate 80 across Nebraska

On Monday July 5th we spent about 6 hours driving across Nebraska.  Nebraska is pretty farm country but there is not much to vary the scenery after awhile!!  Corn field after corn field, hay field after hay field!

Here are some photo’s I took while Mike was driving – we did have some interesting clouds to look at.

we left Indian Cave State Park around 9AM and beat the rain out of the park but shortly after it started to rain. Then after an hour or so it just looked like this! Really neat looking clouds

a little further down the road and it still looked like this!

by late morning the clouds where breaking up and the sky was blue in patches with pretty white clouds. Here is one of those hay fields!

another field

Now this is one interesting site to see.  You are driving down the interstate at Kearney, Nebraska and here is this arch across the interstate. About 3 years ago Mike had heard about it and we did stop to see it then.  This is a museum and over look.  You can walk across the arch on the inside and there are port holes that over look the interstate – they also have radar detectors stationed at each so you can see who is speeding and who isn’t!  Cute.  Here is a link to a site that tells you all about it.  We didn’t stop this time but last time we did take about a 2 1/2 hour rest stop by touring the museum and seeing all that they had.  Great history of the area and all about the Pioneers trip to the West through this country.

Great Platte River Road Archway Memorial- museum and overlook

We had intended to camp two nights at a campground near by while visiting with Mike’s family but the campground didn’t look very nice and the campsites were so sandy we thought we might get stuck so we drove to Mike’s dads house instead to find out where else to camp.  He has a wide drive way with a shade tree right next to it and he said there was plenty of room so we are parked in the driveway   hooked up with electricity and spending most of our time visiting anyhow so this is working out ok for two nights.  This is a very small country town and no one minds about a camper parked in someone’s driveway!

We leave tomorrow (I am writing this Tuesday evening) in the early afternoon to continue our trip west – we are only driving a couple hours (or less?) to a state park by a lake.  We have been there before and it is nice with big shade trees.  We will be there for two days – I do not know if we will have a cell signal so if you do not hear from me for a couple days that is why.

I have been working on one applique block and maybe I will have something to show at the end of the week?  We will see – I have not gotten much done since we left our house for sure.